Most Influential

The mobile food truck industry is nearing its 6th year of monumental growth. Once referred to as roach coaches, mobile food has made a strong comeback to become the fastest growing trend in the food service industry. Broadcasting their whereabouts on Twitter and other social media networks has replaced the need of a culinary entrepreneur to maintain a brick and mortar store front. Aside from the assistance of social media, it’s their unique options like; Korean Tacos, shredded BBQ Pork on a Waffle, Creme Brulee, and Kobe Beef Sliders, that has been the key to success for these mobile food businesses.

Klout is a San Francisco based company that provides social media analytics that measures a user’s influence across their social network. The analysis is done on data collected from sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Linked In and measures the size of a person’s network, the content created, and how other people interact with that content. Just as we have since 2010, Mobile Cuisine has kept an eye on this tracking and investigated the Klout statistics to see which food truck would be the most influential in 2013.

Once again in first place, just as they have the last 3 years, is The Big Gay Ice Cream truck from New York City. Serving soft serve ice cream with a twist, like their ‘Salty Pimp’ which is vanilla ice cream or Dulce de Leche, sea salt, dipped in chocolate.

You may note that just as we found after analyzing thousands of the nation’s trucks through Klout, NYC (taking the top 3 spots) and Los Angeles have once again dominated this list, with a few outside entrants from Atlanta, Indianapolis, and Las Vegas.

We are proud to announce that the editor-in-chief of Mobile-Cuisine.com; Richard Myrick has been named as one of the most influential food safety social media users in the United States, according to checkit.net and traackr.com.

Congratulations Richard! It is nice that your passion for food safety within the mobile food industry has been recognized.

The mobile food truck industry is nearing its 5th year of monumental growth. Once referred to as roach coaches, mobile food has made a strong comeback to become the fastest growing trend in the restaurant industry. Broadcasting their whereabouts on Twitter and other social media networks has replaced the need of a culinary entrepreneur to maintain a brick and mortar store front. Aside from the assistance of social media, it’s their unique options like; Korean Tacos, shredded BBQ Pork on a Waffle, Creme Brulee, and Kobe Beef Sliders, that has been the key to success for these mobile food businesses.

Klout is a San Francisco based company that provides social media analytics that measures a user’s influence across their social network. The analysis is done on data collected from sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Linked In and measures the size of a person’s network, the content created, and how other people interact with that content. Just as we have the last couple of years Mobile Cuisine has kept an eye on this tracking and investigated the Klout statistics to see which food truck would be the most influential in 2012.

Once again in first place, just as they have the last 2 years, is The Big Gay Ice Cream truck from New York City. Serving soft serve ice cream with a twist, like their ‘Salty Pimp’ which is vanilla ice cream or Dulce de Leche, sea salt, dipped in chocolate.

You may note that just as we found after analyzing thousands of the nation’s trucks through Klout, LA and NYC have once again dominated this list, with a few outside entrants from Atlanta, Boston, Las Vegas and Indianapolis.

The gourmet food truck industry is steadily growing across the country and even the world. Once referred to as roach coaches, within the last 4 years mobile food has made a strong comeback to become the fastest growing trend in the restaurant industry. Broadcasting their whereabouts on Twitter and other networks has replaced the need maintain a brick and mortar business.

These trucks cover the full gamut of cuisines available including vegetarian and vegan delicacies. This year Mobile Cuisine Magazine has tracked and investigated the Klout statistics to see which vegan food truck is the most influential for 2012.

Kloutis a San Francisco based company that provides social media analytics that measures a user’s influence across their social network. The analysis is done on data collected from sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Linked In and measures the size of a person’s network, the content created, and how other people interact with that content.

Coming in first this year, is The Cinnamon Snail truck from Red Bank and Hoboken, NJ and New York City. Coming in second is a truck from the Orange Country, CA, The Seabirds Truck. In third, a tie between two trucks, The Clover Food Truck from Cambridge, MA and LIBA Falafel from San Francisco.